L‘Oblivion and the denial of history are immense dangers for the Republic. It is with this conviction that we, young Roma and travelers, we are now addressing national representation.
Eighty-one years ago, on the night of August 2 to 3, 1944, 4,300 Roma, Schi, Gypsies, Manouches, Yeniches and Travelers, interned in the Gypsy camp [« Le camp des Tziganes »] From Auschwitz-Birkenau, were exterminated. This massacre was the highlight of the European genocide of Roma and travelers during the Second World War.
More than 500,000 women, men and children were methodically murdered, so that none of our families have been spared. As with Jewish, disabled or homosexual people, this industrial process of extermination was commanded by the Nazi regime, but involved the zealous collaboration of other European powers. Some of them did not wait for the III injunctionse Reich to implement it. In France, between 1939 and 1946, three successive regimes, including the Republic, set up a policy of household assignment and internment of the said “Nomads”. Before the release, the Vichy regime accelerated the genocidal process by bringing together our ancestors in large concentrational structures in the perspective of deportations to the Nazi killing centers.
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